Walter Bagehot: “The English rat--not the pleasantest of our domestic creatures--has gone everywhere; to Australia, to New Zealand, to…”

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

Now it is not conceivable that a race of beings with valuable instincts supporting their existence and supplying their wants would need these simple tools.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

Carlyle has taught the present generation many lessons, and one of these is that 'God-fearing' armies are the best armies.